Category: Press Releases

Fairburn, Georgia, May 23nd, 2019 — Building upon excellence in education, Landmark Christian School and the Fairburn community broke ground on May 6 to renovate the formerly segregated Fairburn Public Elementary School. The ceremony marked a new beginning for Landmark, South Fulton County, and the City of Fairburn by formally embarking upon a $10,000,000 renovation and construction of a new high school. Landmark is renovating the historic building that once was used to divide the community and constructing one of the most innovative and unifying schools in the state and nation.
“The city of Fairburn is excited to witness this groundbreaking ceremony. It is symbolic in so many ways.” Mayor Pro Tem Linda Davis said to those in attendance at the ceremony. “We are breaking the ground from old traditions to new possibilities. We are breaking the ground from the segregation partly based on fear to the integration of bold visions and ideas … to the freedom of neighborly love. We are moving forward together.”

Prior to being named Fairburn Elementary School, the building was known as The Fairburn Negro school dating back to February 13, 1947, on the original topography blueprints. Then, the school housed just four teachers and 125 students representing all grade levels. It wasn’t until the early 1970s when white students joined the now named Fairburn Elementary School. The school closed its doors in 1991. Landmark Christian School purchased the vacant buildings in 2007 from the city of Fairburn and the buildings have remained mostly untouched until May 6, 2019.

The new 21st-century high school will unite the community by attracting students of all backgrounds and interests and continuing to prepare leaders for generations to come. The new building will house the Landmark Aviation Academy, including a flight simulator that currently only a handful of high schools in the nation offer. Other unique offerings include the Film Academy, Leadership Academy, Engineering Academy, and later to follow, a Culinary Academy and Dance Academy. These Academies along with the recently launched Landmark Music Academy provide many opportunities for students to determine their interests and develop their passions.

In addition to Mayor Pro Tem Linda Davis’ passionate address at the ceremony, Judge Carla Wong McMillian read a proclamation from Representative Derrick Jackson, member of the Georgia House of Representatives, acknowledging and applauding the efforts of Landmark and their commitment to making South Fulton County, Georgia a better place to reside. The proclamation states that May 6, 2019, will now be recognized as “Be the Change Day.”

The success of a recently launched capital campaign by Landmark, titled “IT’S TIME” reflects how this project resonates with the community and has already reached $5,000,000 in donations. A gofundme account has been set to help accomplish the remaining funding goals. https://www.gofundme.com/be-the-change-initiative. Please contact Dr. Jason McMaster, Head of School, to discuss how corporations and individuals may be involved. jmcmaster@landmark-cs.org | cell:805-338-8901. To learn more about Landmark Christian School and to follow the journey of the Be the Change project, visit landmarkchristianschool.org/bethechange.

Landmark Christian School, just south of Atlanta, has two convenient campuses, Peachtree City (K4-4th grade) and Fairburn, Georgia (K4-12th grade) and is now enrolling. For more information about Landmark Christian School, to tour, or to inquire about admission, visit landmarkchristianschool.org or call 770.306.0647.

Exclusivity is not the path forward for health information, so Australian health app Wanngi is taking on Apple Health by being the only app that gives Australians access to their own personal health record on any device or operating system.

Apple Health is currently the biggest place for consumers to store health information, but it is not yet available to Australians, and will leave behind the 55% of Australians who don’t have an iPhone when it is.

Health data should be available to everyone, now.

Wanngi’s innovative new app allows people to upload records from hospital and doctor visits, record symptoms, track allergies, immunisations and more – the first of its kind in Australia.

Wanngi is changing the health industry by giving people the ability to manage their own health all within one application on whatever device they choose.

By allowing people from any country to upload clinical documents from doctor visits – a feature that Apple Health offers only to American users – Wanngi is ahead of the curve.

Australia needs to be ready for the future of digital health and with My Health Record, it will soon become expected that we can easily access our digital health record.

Wanngi currently provides a personal option for the almost 2.5 million people who opted out of My Health Record, and will soon connect to My Health Record, giving people access to their health on any device.

Wanngi is determined to break down barriers by giving people full control over their personal health record – health data should be accessible for everyone.

About Us
Wanngi is a mobile web app that provides individuals with the ability to manage and take control of their health information. By allowing members to create their own personal health record, track symptoms, allergies & immunisations, upload medical documents and manage meaningful fitness goals through wearables, Wanngi empowers consumers to live a healthier and more informed life.

Sacramento, CA, May 22nd, 2019 – Two Trees PPC LLC has announced today that its board of directors has officially appointed Michael Wisby as Chief Executive Officer.

“We’re fortunate to have someone of Mike’s caliber and experience to step up to lead Two Trees PPC,” said Mirah Lucas, the company’s Chief Communications Officer. “We’re at a critical moment and need renewed leadership to successfully implement our strategy to take advantage of the market opportunities ahead. Mike is a strategic visionary with a proven track record of execution. He’s customer focused with extensive leadership capabilities.”

Wisby said, “I’m excited to lead Two Trees PPC. I’ve enjoyed helping found the company back in 2017. Returning now full time as CEO will be a rewarding challenge. I can’t wait to meet local business owners and learn about their goals and company culture.”

About Two Trees PPC
Two Trees PPC has worked with a diverse range of businesses throughout California. The company is a Certified Google Partner and specializes in digital advertising for local businesses.

Astoria, NY, May 20th, 2019 – As spring is upon us, we would like to remind you of several ant prevention measures that should be taken by your staff at this time to reduce the odds for ant incursion. By acting now, you can prevent the establishment of internal ant colonies and reduce the number of future complaints and subsequent service charges.

A. Reduce exterior ground clutter such as dead leaves and debris. Keep area free of food sources for both insects and rodents. Remove fallen fruit, berries, candy wrappers, dog feces and any other pest food sources.

B. Close and seal exterior gaps around low windows, pipes and any other access points below six feet with a quality weather proof sealant. You might consider stainless steel or copper mesh in securing some of the larger gaps to provide for rodent exclusion as well.

C.Trim trees back so they do not form a bridge either now or when foliage appears, which will allow foraging ants and other insects to gain access.

D.In trash storage and recycle areas all material should be stored off the ground to allow for proper inspection and control measures. In addition, areas must be properly cleaned on a regular basis, especially in warmer weather to reduce ants, flies, American roaches and rodents.

E. In buildings with setbacks, decks, pool or roof landscaping, inspect all incoming foliage, bark chips and ground cover for possible hitchhiking pests as has happened previously (plant beetles, wood roaches and moths). In ground ant stations may also be placed and maintained in these areas.

F. Eliminate moisture issues, water accumulation and leaks which support pests including ants, American roaches, beetles, gnats, mosquitoes and rodents.

G. Perform an exterior perimeter treatment with a quality residual material
to provide a barrier to foraging ants. At least two more treatments may
be anticipated throughout the season. Your landscape person can provide this service or Standard can arrange to treat it with authorization.

By following these basic IPM practices you will be able to assist in reducing the odds of pest incursion. Unfortunately, once inside the building environment control becomes more complicated, expensive and is at best reactive in nature. Should you have any questions or to arrange for exterior perimeter service please contact our office staff.

About Us
Standard Pest Management has been providing commercial & residential pest management solutions throughout New York City since 1929.

Florida, April 10th, 2019 — Burnetti, P.A. is no stranger to those living in Central Florida. Whether it is a billboard on the side of the road or a commercial during a television show, most people have heard of the local law firm.

2019 is a big year for Burnetti, P.A. Doug Burnetti, the founder and President, reflects on the past two and a half decades: “This year we celebrate our 25th anniversary. The firm started, with my wife’s help, in a single office with one secretary and myself. It’s incredible to see the impact we’ve made these past twenty-five years and we would not be here if it weren’t for our clients.”

The growth from a single office to multiple staffed offices and from one attorney to many, is in large part due to the firm’s dedication and commitment to excellent customer service. The firm contributes its record growth to this strong standard of care.

“We’ve had significant growth from returning clients as well as from client referrals,” Mr. Burnetti explains. “As a way to say thank you, we wanted to do something special for our past and current clients as we celebrate this milestone year.”

Burnetti, P.A. is starting their 25th year with a client appreciation day. All past and current clients have the opportunity to join the Burnetti, P.A. staff at a private screening of an upcoming blockbuster movie in May. In addition to the multiple theatre rentals, the firm is also including complimentary concessions and drinks to all clients who reserve their free tickets.

“We really want our clients to feel special,” Mr. Burnetti concludes. “25 years is a long time and all of us at the firm simply love what we do. We get to help people every single day.”

About Burnetti, P.A.

Burnetti, P.A. is dedicated to the representation of injured citizens across the state of Florida. Established in 1994 by Doug Burnetti, the firm’s practice is concentrated in aggressively representing cases involving personal injuries or wrongful deaths.

World Life Experience is dreaming of a sociable, accountable and sustainable world. It focuses on tearing down misunderstandings and prejudices while building bridges to enhance cultural interconnectedness. Its innovation is that it highlights the importance of mutual apprehension by promoting the 17 Global Sustainable Development Goals.

At an immersive program, WLE combines social contribution and cultural assimilation. Through participial activities at an experientially universal yearly trip, WLE equips one dozen lucky youngsters with the essential ideas and skills needed in accomplishing relevant projects anywhere in the planet. They practically become global change makers.

They visit 20 different countries in 4 continents, spending 15 days in each of the 20 cities. There, everyone volunteers 7 to 8 days within an NGO, spends 4 to 5 days exploring local society and civilization cultural and enjoys entertainment activities for 3 free days. All expenses are covered and a monthly salary is included.

The non-governmental organizations were chosen in order to bring forth major problems of the area, to provide a hands-on model approach and to incorporate the 17 Global Sustainable Development Goals. Participants become their ambassadors so they can contribute to this evolution.

The 2nd mission is about to start after completing partnerships with sponsors and it will be represented by individuals from India, Venezuela, Peru, Kazakhstan, Colombia, Croatia, Tunisia, Mexico & Japan, Portuguese, Brazil, and Greece.

Applications for the 3rd mission have just opened and are free to apply. The organizers invite all who are interested in traveling to 20 destinations throughout the world, learning different societies and cultures, and developing new skills, with a monthly salary and all expenses paid (travel, transport, food, insurance, accommodation).

NYC-based Media Scholar and Visual Artist long drawn to the ancient presences of the Chacoan Culture and landscape.

SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO, March 29th, 2019 — This April, the National Parks Arts Foundation in cooperation with the National Park Service at Chaco Culture National Historical Park will host New York-based media scholar and digital artist Dawnja Burris for the first of the foundation’s 2019 residencies. The artist will spend a month working at various locations around the wide-ranging park complex, and will stay and work in housing and studio provided by the Park Service. A dean at the New School, Professor Burris is a New York City based artist, who is interested in the translation of images through diverse mediation and form. The Residency will run from April 1st to April 30th, 2019, and she will be making a public presentation at the Visitor’s Center Auditorium on April 27th at 3 PM.

Burris is no stranger to the determining sky of the desert southwest. “As a girl I wanted to live on the frontier; I asked my mother to name a planned baby brother “Grey Feather”. Born in Colorado, and raised in West Texas, and Southern New Mexico, Burris is a wanderer and a psychogeographer who aims to tease out, through montages and overlays, the contradictions in modern life by confronting us with recovered ambients of representation, and how they rhyme with more current, everyday images which we might take for granted. “As a media studies scholar, I am fascinated with the oral traditions and early image making and storytelling techniques /technologies, especially with the ways in which early conceptions of human life practices continue, merge and converge in contemporary life.”

We are often conditioned to see Art, Technology, and Nature as antithetical — but through the ancient architecture, petroglyphys and archaeoastronomy at unique places like Chaco Culture National Historical Park, we can see that this is a modern simplification. According to Burris, these interlacings are all around us, and the site of creative opportunity: “My headspace is different in the “urban digital landscape” as the physical and mental expanse of the desert is obviously not present. The structures and rhythms of life in Manhattan and Brooklyn where I spend the majority of my time are in many ways more constricted but also provide a wealth of opportunity to create work that has resonance with the subjects that occupy my thinking.”

The particular power that the animal has always had in all human culture, which can be seen in totems in ethnography to YouTube and Instagram cat videos, makes up a broad thematic core of Burris’s process. “The traces of animal spirit do indeed have a centrality in my artistic practice. The ubiquitous images of animals that pervade our human world proceed from ancient practices of figuring the animals that we humans have and continue to co-evolve with. At Chaco, I am very interested in the representations made in petroglyph and pictograph forms as well as the continuous animal life that remains an integral part of the ecosystem. With animal reference being so persistent to human sense-making and storytelling, I am drawn to the form of the shadow and the associations shadow forms conjure when they resemble animal body shapes and movements.”

This re-tracing, and underlining of the forms in the light and shadow of a site specific installation, even ephemeral, is another way to activate and make tangible the spaces at Chaco. In this way, artwork can be seen as another alternative instance of the interpretation that is the Park Service’s work. Adds Burris, “The full land and sky-scape is essential context and material for my work. I see the expanse of the site and material details of the ground, the stone, the roads and the structural remains as present or living artifacts in that they represent a past and a living present at the same time. This simultaneity is a natural condition to me and can communicate a worldview that encourages a stronger sense of paying attention to where we are on Earth and how we are integrating with it and our fellow animal cohabitants.” This park and this artist seem like an ideal match for collaboration.

The April Resident has scheduled a talk and presentation on her work and process at the Visitor Center Auditorium on Friday, April 27th at 3 PM.

Chaco Culture National Historical Park was established as a national monument by presidential proclamation in 1907. This beautiful and isolated complex preserves the historical traces of the sacred Ancestral Pueblo culture. The park is also a Dark Skies certified location, one of the ideal places for astronomy and astrophotography. The Monument expanded to its present boundaries and park designation in 1980. The park is located in the open plains of Northwestern New Mexico, sharing borders with the Navajo Nation and BLM land.

NPAF is a 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to the promotion of the National Parks of the U.S. through creating dynamic opportunities for artworks that are based in our natural and historic heritage. Artists may apply with their proposals for this residency and find additional information atwww.nationalparksartsfoundation.org. The AiR program is made possible through the philanthropic support of donors of all sorts ranging from corporate sponsors, small business, and art patrons and citizen-lovers of the Parks. NPAF is always seeking new partners for its wide-ranging artist-in-residence programs.

The Euforaje is a portal where all the information regarding water well drilling is a click away

This portal is aimed primarily at technical students who are in engineering or construction faculties. A drill, be it for a single well of water, needs to be carefully analyzed and requires some basic knowledge. This is the type of material to be used, the diameter of the well, the pipes to be used, the type of the drilling head, the way the walls are strengthened, etc.

Drills are part of any geotechnical study, studies about which the euphoria.com platform provides detailed information. In short, geotechnical studies are necessary in the case of any construction or works to determine the type of soil and its structure.

Once the composition of the soil is observed, a decision can be made on the foundation to be made for the smooth construction of a building. Imagine that you are in the situation of building a few storey building on muddy soil.

It is obvious that you will have to build a deep foundation and eventually on supporting pillars. If you do not know the composition of the soil, and you make an inadequate foundation, then surely the problems will not be delayed.

The euforaje.ro platform brings to the same place all the companies in the country dealing with drilling water wells, geotechnical studies or drilling for the installation of heat pumps.

A construction student needs to know all these companies, whether they want to look for a job or are interested in an internship in this field.

Toronto, March 26th, 2019 — Szego Materials Engineering Inc. has begun production of The Szego Mill, a high-efficiency industrial grinder using technology and methods unique in the world of comminution. It offers significant cost savings, with 30x greater volume capacity of a similar-sized ball mill, using up to 10x less power. The Szego Mill is a modular unit and allows tool-free maintenance, cleaning and swapping of parts to change between jobs in minutes. Customizable grinding rollers with an average 10-year life give fine control over particle output size and distribution. There is no grinding media to replace.

Invented in 1971 by Laszlo Szego, this novel machine has been heavily developed and refined over the last 4 decades by Dr. Prof. Olev Trass of the University of Toronto Applied Chemical Engineering Dept. Although never previously commercialized, the Szego Mill has been the subject of more than 20 commercial pilot projects throughout the world. These have resulted in over 30 patents and 100+ published research papers which conclude that the Szego Mill offers extremely high cost savings and return-on-investment when used with materials ranging from coal and oil fuels, to pulp and paper; anaerobic digestion of wastes; protein, oil and mineral extraction; food processing and more.

The Szego Mill will make its commercial debut at the Powder & Bulk Solids show in Toronto, June 4th – 6th. For more information please see www.szegomill.com

About the Company: Szego Materials Engineering Inc. is a family business building on four generations of ingenuity and innovation with grinding machine patents going back to 1899. All our products are invented, developed and made in Canada.

Los Angeles, CA, March 21st, 2019 — MobileWash, the mobile car wash app, has grown 300% each year. A true on-demand car wash app, MobileWash brings the car wash to you at home or work. This year, MobileWash has grown even further, as a spokesman confirmed “The company is expanding into 5 states by the end of Summer; from California into Nevada, Florida, Arizona and Texas.”

Unlike other mobile car wash apps, MobileWash has extremely high standards, dedicated customer service representatives, and branded vehicles. For example, MobileWash performs background checks as part of the vetting process and only partners with professional, insured, auto detailers. In addition to the Express, Deluxe and Premium options, MobileWash offers a la carte add-ons, such as clay bar treatment, paste wax and water spot removal, to name a few.

As the company has grown, a major obstacle was converting the mindset of professional service providers to the MobileWash standard. But, through hard work and dedication, the company’s core values have been adopted by all their washers.

“We’re always improving the app to ensure customer and detailer fulfillment. Our dedicated users are wonderful. For instance, Suzy in Glendale has used MobileWash 58 times, with her Land Rover, in the last 17 months. Kris from Huntington Beach has entrusted us with his Cadillac 64 times, in the last 17 months. Matt from Long Beach has trusted us with his BMW 54 times in the past 19 months. Along with these avid users, there are many others who count on MobileWash weekly. With how expansive the company has become, we get many requests a day from cities that don’t have MobileWash yet, so ideally we’re just going to keep expanding.” Al Davi, CEO of MobileWash.

MobileWash uses dynamic pricing. The price of their car wash and auto detailing service is calculated based on the make and model of the vehicle, the time of day, and other factors.

MobileWash stands by its motto, “Car Wash in Minutes.” To experience MobileWash, download the app, on GooglePlay or App Store.